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May f), 1861. 

 President in the Chair. 

 Dr. Kellogg read the following descriptions of plants ; 



The following described Onion appears to be new. It was 

 brought from Shasta by Mr. Andrew A. Ycateh, and cnltivated 

 by Mr. H. G. Bloomer : 



Allium attenuifoUum (Kellogg). — Fig. o3. — Scape terete, 

 solid, glaucous, smooth, (minutely s])eckled) spi'inging from the 

 base of a small, roundish, truncated bulb. In other specimens 

 we have seen, from the top of the bulb as usual. 



Leaves two, radical, stem sheathing at the broad membran- 

 ous base, striate and channeled below, closely canaliculate 

 above, very narrow and slenderly attenuated toward the fili- 

 form apex ; margins slightly scabrous. 



Bracts three ; outermost larger, broad-ovate or oblong-ovate, 

 short acuminate, sessile, membranous, four to nine-nerved or 

 more ; somewhat unequal. 



Umbel globose, many-flo\\%red (fifty to eighty or more), whit- 

 ish (scarcely a pinkish tinge ?) on pedicels half to three-fourtlirf 

 of an inch long. Flowers (not gibbous at the base) campanu- 

 late-rotate. 



Petals ovoid-diamond-acnte, slightly inflexed from the mid- 

 dle, mid-nerve pinkish (the three inner a little narrower). 



Stamens as long as the perianth, filaments inserted at the 

 base, subulate, white, anthers cream-colored, at length becom- 

 ing blueish. Style as long as the stamens. Stigma simple. 



Germ, color lively, pinkish capsule, turbinate, sub-three 

 angled or three rounded cells, eacli cell slightly or obsoletely 

 two-crested, central axis at the pistil depressed. 



Cells two-seeded, rarely more than one perfected ; seeds 

 roundish, black, minutely pitted. 



Collinsia hirstiia (Kellogg). — Fig, 34 — Stem purplish, branch- 

 ing, eight inches to a foot in height, short, scabruiose, whitish 

 pubescent. 



Leaves oblong ovate, somewhat obtuse, serrate, teeth rounded 

 or obtuse, each tipped with a red gland ; lamina thick, fleshy 

 and brittle ; margins scabrous, often revolute, short villous- 

 above ; pitted below and villous along the midrib ; five-nerved 

 at the base and triple-nerved above, i. e., the principal cauline 

 leaves. Lower leaves oblong, short petioled. Cauline leaves 

 sub-sessile, the short membranous petiole stem-clasping and 

 connate. 



(The uppermost lesser braetoid leaves oblong, linear, obtuse, 

 entire on shovt petioles verticellate by threes, six to nine in u 



